Hello James >Doug, > >Here are a few links. I've driven an E250 van that ran on biodiesel made >from algae oil..
Well that would be a first. It needs a little more detail please James, or a lot more detail. Considering that by all accounts there is no such thing as biodiesel from algae apart from a few lab samples and some pilot projects that never get any further, and zero production - but LOTS of hype! Please see the links in my reply to Doug. >This process was revived by MIT and Jimmy Carter in >1979. In which John Benemann was one of the lead scientists, and he is completely sceptical. See: <http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/msg70264.html> >And is the most bang for the alt energy buck anywhere.. > ><http://web.mit.edu/erc/spotlights/alg.html> ><http://thefraserdomain.typepad.com/energy/2006/12/arizona_public_.html> Where is the production? Best Keith >Regards, >JQ > > > >doug wrote: >> Hi, >> I ran into a chap travelling around Australia extolling the virtues of >> running on SVO. >> He is to email me more details, but apparently there is a project in >> Australia involved with oil from Algae, aparently using CO2 feedstock from >> generation equipment. >> I googled to try to find more info, but only found foreign references from >> ~2005. Has anyone heard anything about this project? >> > > regards Doug _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
